“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
1780 – 1832
English cleric and writer, author of "Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words".
“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”
“To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school, is to put a race horse in a mill.”
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”
“Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.”
“He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.”
“Times of general calamity and confusion, have ever been productive of the greatest minds.”
“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them, because we hate them.”
“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often to despise what we really fear.”
“Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it.”
“A feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation.”
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”
